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| Don't Panic! by Boz4PM | 3 Review(s) |
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| Ivy | Reviewed Chapter: 18 on 7/31/2006 |
| Ha--that should be PATHETIC Man Fancier. ;) Author Reply: I take it you are a PEF, then? ;) Or perhaps a PHF? Thanks for reading, Ivy - I've just been catching up with all your comments so far. I'm glad you're enjoying it so far and hope you continue to do so. If you have any questions, then your best bet would probably be to track me down on my LJ (user name is 'boz4pm), and I can answer them there. As for Gandalf being able to translate, then as I think I explained in the footnotes (you have to realise this fic was written two years ago), Gandalf is already capable of 'telepathic' communication with others (Elrond, Celeborn & Galadriel at least). Added to which he is a Maia - a demi-god - so it was a not unreasonable authorial bit of poetic licence to say he would be able to 'tune in' to her after he had had a little time to get used to her. If Galadriel can read people's thoughts, without needing a connection with them, then Gandalf should be able to do so much more easily if he so chooses. Galadriel is a powerful Noldo, but Gandalf is still a Maia and thus more powerful and more capable, even if he keeps it under wraps. As for him having 'more important things to do' - not really. They have a couple of months before they will leave. While they are off finding news of the Nazgul nothing is happening. She is an enigma, and potentially a dangerous one at that, so he will want to learn as much about her as possible and keep an eye on her - in a friendly way, of course. ;) | |
| phoenix23531 | Reviewed Chapter: 18 on 12/14/2005 |
| Ah, Penny's near faux-pas of telling Arwen how strange it would be to wake up in Valinor. Ouch, that WOULD have hurt. I could only imagine how Elrond would have reacted had he overheard that slip out. In this chapter, I love your characterisation of Boromir. You grant him all the nobility, intelligence and chivalric nature that Tolkien imbued him with. Too often, fanfic writers gloss him over as either bad or 'good-but-intrinsically flawed' when this was in no way the case. I love that you have kept him so much 'in character'. Thank you for doing him justice. I also love the assumption (and very well-assumed) that Legolas and Gloin (if not Gimli himself) had met previously. It is no stretch of imagination to assume this, and I think your description of their potential for having met was very well done. That, and the assumption that Legolas would have been beside his father at the Battle of Five Armies really goes a long way to making him a more Tolkien character than a too-often mischaracterised AU one. If that made any sense, please let me know. :-) Author Reply: Well, thank you for that. It is true I am a Boromir fan - I have been ever since I first read LOTR way back when - but I tried to stay objective and treat his characterisation exactly as I did the rest: write them exactly as I see them when I read the books. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 18 on 12/10/2005 |
| Oh my. Hearing the tale of The Hobbit from Bilbo, Gandalf, Gloin and Legolas. Couldn't be better. | |